Not even identical twins can have the exact same experiences, and their brains are not wired the same way. — John Medina Copy Share Image
The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect. — John Medina Copy Share Image
Every brain is wired differently from every other brain, and learns in ways unique to that wiring. — John Medina Copy Share Image
What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it. — John Medina Copy Share Image
The brain appears to have been designed to solve problems related to surviving in an outdoor setting, in unstable meteorological conditions, and… — John Medina Copy Share Image
You don't have a work brain and a home brain. You have a single brain, one you carry with you wherever you… — John Medina Copy Share Image
The brain doesn't care about change. As the world's most sophisticated survival organ, the brain cares about loss. — John Medina Copy Share Image
Whether at work, home or school, everybody carries their brain around them, and if the organ suffers from a disorder, we carry… — John Medina Copy Share Image
Brain scientists and education scientists don't get together very often, and we end up living in our own little silos. — John Medina Copy Share Image
If managers knew how deeply their behaviors could affect brain function - whether they are piling up too much work on someone… — John Medina Copy Share Image
If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would… — John Medina Copy Share Image
Most brain scientists have not taught 4th grade, and don't know very much about the classroom, even though they might study learning… — John Medina Copy Share Image
If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably… — John Medina Copy Share Image
Even though we don't know squat about how the brain works, the little we do know suggests that if you wanted to… — John Medina Copy Share Image
The ability to double our biomass - not by waiting several million years and growing to be the size of an elephant… — John Medina Copy Share Image
A third or more of the brain is devoted to visual processing, not true of any other sense. We have color vision… — John Medina Copy Share Image
Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and… — John Medina Copy Share Image
People try to apply directly results from the cognitive neurosciences directly to classroom practice and I have to tell you I am… — John Medina Copy Share Image
I think the most incredible fact about the brain is that it is the only piece of biological real estate that can… — John Medina Copy Share Image
There is a neuron in your brain that will respond only to pictures of Jennifer Aniston - provided you have had prior… — John Medina Copy Share Image
The brain cannot multitask. Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one… — John Medina Copy Share Image
The brain processes meaning before detail. Providing the gist, the core concept, first was like giving a thirsty person a tall glass… — John Medina Copy Share Image
Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions. — John Medina Copy Share
“The more handles one creates at the moment of learning, the more likely the information is to be assessed at a later date. The… — John Medina Copy Share
If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design… — John Medina Copy Share
“Every time I lectured to a group of parents-to-be about baby brain development,” — John Medina Copy Share
“reasoning is a uniquely human talent. It may have arisen from our need to understand one another’s intentions and motivations. This allowed us to… — John Medina Copy Share
If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design… — John Medina Copy Share
“Emotionally arousing events tend to be better remembered than neutral events. While” — John Medina Copy Share
Most brain scientists have not taught 4th grade, and don't know very much about the classroom, even though they might study learning in some… — John Medina Copy Share
“The more parents talk to their children, even in the earliest moments of life, the better their kids’ linguistic abilities become” — John Medina Copy Share
Even though we don't know squat about how the brain works, the little we do know suggests that if you wanted to design a… — John Medina Copy Share
“More research has since confirmed and extended these simple findings. In addition to satisfying relationships, other behaviors that predict happiness include: • a steady dose… — John Medina Copy Share
What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it. — John Medina Copy Share
Brain scientists and education scientists don't get together very often, and we end up living in our own little silos. — John Medina Copy Share
